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CVPR
2010
IEEE
16 years 18 days ago
The Cluttered Background Problem for Active Contours: A Minimum-Latency Solution
We present a region-based active contour detection algorithm for objects that exhibit relatively homogeneous photometric characteristics (e.g. smooth color or gray levels), embedd...
Stefano Soatto, Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Anthony Yez...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
The Weak Mutual Exclusion problem
In this paper we define the Weak Mutual Exclusion (WME) problem. Analogously to classical Distributed Mutual Exclusion (DME), WME serializes the accesses to a shared resource. Di...
Paolo Romano, Luís Rodrigues, Nuno Carvalho
ICIA
2007
15 years 6 months ago
A Decision-Theoretic Model of Assistance - Evaluation, Extensions and Open Problems
There is a growing interest in intelligent assistants for a variety of applications from organizing tasks for knowledge workers to helping people with dementia. In our earlier wor...
Sriraam Natarajan, Kshitij Judah, Prasad Tadepalli...
CORR
2007
Springer
147views Education» more  CORR 2007»
15 years 4 months ago
Coding Solutions for the Secure Biometric Storage Problem
—The paper studies the problem of securely storing biometric passwords, such as fingerprints and irises. With the help of coding theory Juels and Wattenberg derived in 1999 a sc...
Davide Schipani, Joachim Rosenthal
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MVA
2008
201views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
How close are we to solving the problem of automated visual surveillance?
The problem of automated visual surveillance has spawned a lively research area, with 2005 seeing three conferences or workshops and special issues of two major journals devoted to...
Hannah M. Dee, Sergio A. Velastin